In Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade, the conversation between the three merchants is the first lead in Altaïr's investigation on Tamir rather than the second, and he finds them closer to—or at—the Souk Al-Silaah. The dialogue is identical to that in the game up until the line "Does as he pleases now," where the book then retracts the rest of the conversation into merely describing it as covering a great deal of content, alongside the explicit mention of the words "the biggest ever". This suggests that their discussion deviates from that in the game beginning at the point the book omits the rest of it. In addition, unlike in the game where the merchants end their talk on their own accord, in the novel, they are interrupted by the threatening gaze of a nearby herald, actually the herald that would be interrogated by Altaïr immediately afterwards but is quite far from the merchants in the game.